Common Sense Quotes

The very way that you think is a crucial component to your overall health and well being. Living towards the negative will only foster conflict and a sense of lack, while living towards the positive will create more opportunity for you to experience harmony and abundance.

~ Gary Hopkins

When you are always ready for the worst, then the worst is likely to show up

~ Gary Hopkins

Unfortunately, fact checking has become a lost art

~ Gary Hopkins

Alexia wondered what it said about her character that Ivy had genuinely believed she would intentionally go climbing about the side of a floating dirigible.

~ Gail Carriger

One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings, is, that nature disapproves it, otherwise, she would not so frequently turn it into ridicule by giving mankind an ass for a lion.

~ Thomas Paine

I may be Anti-Big Government, but only because I am Pro-Human.

~ Gary Hopkins

Never let your emotions get so high that they flood your common sense.

~ Steve Cross Crossbytes

By the way, I never realized that to be nonbelieving, to be an atheist, was a thing to be proud of. It went without saying as it were.

~ Erwin Schrödinger

I do not believe in God, because I believe in man. Whatever his mistakes, man has for thousands of years been working to undo the botched job your god has made.

~ Emma Goldman

When we use these words and we talk about plants having a strategy to do this or wanting this or desiring this, we’re being metaphorical obviously. I mean, plants do not have consciousness. But, this is a fault of our own vocabulary. We don’t have a very good vocabulary to describe what others species do to us, because we think we’re the only species that really does anything.

~ Michael Pollan

If it is considered speaking knowledgeably about malaria by having spent a few weeks traveling into malaria endemic zones and fallen sick from being infected with it, then what is it considered by having lived in the very same malaria endemic zones for years without being infected by it?

~ T.k. Naliaka

[He was aware] of the value of the word of praise dropped at exactly the right moment, and he would have thought himself extremely stupid to withhold what cost him so little and was productive of such desirable results.

~ Georgette Heyer

It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?

~ Isaac Asimov

It must be frustrating to survive the gauntlet that is our western medical schooling system only to one day come to the realization that you have been taught only to manage illness and disease instead of curing it.

~ Gary Hopkins

All too often, the rabbit hole is as deep as you have dug it.

~ Gary Hopkins

The truth is: Everyone will judge you. But this depends upon your intellectual capacity whether you are able to distinguish constructive criticism between an insult coming from other people's opinions about you.

~ Anonymous

Intelligence is a necessity, but when one is without a supernatural sense, intelligence becomes senseless.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

If I already intuitively get what you're trying to tell me, why should I obsess about remembering it? The danger, of course, is that what sounds like common sense often isn't.... It's your job, as a communicator, to expose the parts of your message that are uncommon sense.(p.72)

~ Chip Heath

Pride tells me to give it back, but common sense tells pride to shut up, have a joint and relax. I shrug and put the note into my wallet.

~ Mohsin Hamid

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who follow the popular majority, and those who possess good sense. In other words, you can either let the crowd steer you right over a cliff, or you can stop to peer beyond the brink and see how a fall will likely end in tragedy.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Interestingly enough, every time I corner a fanatic with scientific facts which they cannot argue or disprove, they either dismiss me as 'anti-God' and a 'secular humanist' or they start spouting reams of misapplied and irrelevant 'scripture' at me, like good little sheeple and like that will in any way, shape or form prove anything... Which just proves to me that common sense and actual reason doesn't come into it. Only hatred.

~ Christina Engela

I will no longer argue with the senseless and unreasonable, for they are void of reason and common sense.

~ Suzy Kassem

Religion should be subject to commonsense appraisal and rational review, as openly discussible as, say, politics, art and the weather. The First Amendment, we should recall, forbids Congress both from establishing laws designating a state religion and from abridging freedom of speech. There is no reason why we should shy away from speaking freely about religion, no reason why it should be thought impolite to debate it, especially when, as so often happens, religious folk bring it up on their own and try to impose it on others.

~ Jeffrey Tayler

All Religions have this in common, that they are an outrage to common sense for they are pieced together out of a variety of elements, some of which seem so unworthy, sordid and at odds with man’s reason, that any strong and vigorous intelligence laughs at them... The human intellect is only capable of tackling mediocre subjects: it disdains petty subjects, and is startled by large ones. There is no reason to be surprised if it finds any religion hard to accept at first, for all are deficient in the mediocre and the commonplace, nor that it should require skill to induce belief. For the strong intellect laughs at religion, while the weak and superstitious mind marvels at it but is easily scandalized by it.

~ Pierre Charron

In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness.

~ Lin Yutang

There ought to be at least as much common sense about living and dying as there is about going to the grocery store and buying a loaf of bread.

~ Dalton Trumbo

I've said it before, history repeats itself for those who don't learn from the past. Can we please learn from all this? Please? Or is everyone waiting for yet another savior to come along and charm them Hollywood style if freedom is still around for America's next election?

~ L.m. Fields

For every nonsense that is written, there is a sense behind the ‘non’. Not until we go behind the ‘non’, we shall least see the sense. If we stand in front of the nonsense, the ‘non’ shall always face us. It may only take a step taking to go behind the 'non' to see the sense the ‘non’ is obstructing. There are so many people who quit so quickly just because they look at the non in front of the sense and they conclude that sense can never come after ‘non’.

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Common sense is a chaotic aggregate of disparate conceptions, and one can find there anything that one like.

~ Antonio Gramsci

Common sense is not a single unique conception, identical in time and space. It is the folklore of philosophy, and, like folklore, it takes countless different forms. Its most fundamental character is that it is a conception which, even in the brain of one individual, is fragmentary, incoherent and inconsequential.

~ Antonio Gramsci

A goal lacking a sense of ethics is a goal that lacks any sense.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

We don't know that we don't own or owe Anything (In mathematical terms we are sifar), so keep walking as long as your legs are moving towards the infinite. Your own Ego is the only obstacle in this journey, earlier you get rid of it sooner will you find the infinite peace.

~ Ankitmishra

Why don't people get their children stuffed after they pass away. Why not, I mean you do love them right?

~ James J-Pierre

You could take the entirety of the common sense of humans and put it in the palm of your hand and still have room for your dick.

~ Anne Carson

Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure in the end. All is change; all yields its place and goes; to persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. The coward despairs.

~ Euripides

Need doesn't care about being sensible.

~ Amit Kalantri

Science is implausible to untutored human common sense, but that in no way casts doubt on the correctness of well-established scientific findings. Feelings of transcendence are simply that—feelings—and, as such, have no capacity to reveal truths about a world external to the people who have them.

~ Russell Blackford

TO ALL MANKINDSpeak kind wordsto mankindand the unkindwill attack you.Speak common senseusing any of your senses,and you will be attacked bythe senseless.Speak truth,and you will be attacked bythe untruthful.Speak about absolutely nothing,and absolutely nothingwill speak back,but then nothing at allwill ever change.

~ Suzy Kassem

Common sense is a tool that isn't in everyone's shed.

~ Tanya Masse

I would rather write a book without a title if my true friend chooses to live in a million dollar home in London and acts foreign.

~ Duop Chak Wuol